Story #24 “Emotions”

I am confused by it. Do I know it, have I met it, have I seen it, or is it a brainwash? You must put work into it to experience it, right? Maybe not actually, maybe it is something you are allowed to receive because of the work of others. A gift perhaps, from the generations prior to you. Should it be a gift to be given? Should my work be the ability of others to experience it? Why am I feeling selfish…why should I have to experience it from the work that others did? I want to create my own and know full well what values were put into that work. No one should take my work as their sense of pride, for they should know full well what value of work was put into where they are finding their pride. Do you know where yours comes from? Do you know everything that went into it? Are you claiming some of it, what you are deeming to be the good, and choosing to forget about the bad? Or are you claiming it all with the understanding that there is good and bad in everything? Can you claim it fully if you do not understand it fully? Maybe you shall be entirely educated on a matter in which you claim fully. Then again, no one is able to tell you what your experience with this feeling is. So maybe it doesn’t matter whether you know it all or not. I find I have to experience it more close to home. I am not able to blanket it wider than right directly around me. But for many it seems they can have the experience at more of a distance…how about you?